Sculpteo 3D printing blog

The coming years are probably going to be the most exciting for 3D printing innovations. Indeed, the cost of 3D printing technologies will continue to drop while new expiring patents in industrial printing processes will enable engineers and research...

Automation, AI, collaborative platforms, freelance work, uberization, on-demand consumption, outsourcing, globalization… As we are bathing in what is often called Industry 4.0 or The Fourth Industrial Revolution, many factors seem to be on their way ...

“We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.” Ray Bradbury. Scientists recently built a way for everyone to hold this impossible universe in the palm of their hand with a 3D printed model! And there’s more: they made the 3D file of the univers...

Acrylic is one of the four materials we offer for laser cutting, with plywood, MDF and cardboard. Acrylic being a light-sensitive material, it can be hard to imagine what the material looks like only with the pictures you find on our acrylic material...

A Wednesday is always a good day for a throw-back-Thursday! Today, Sculpteo decided to go back on memory lane and to take you back in the days where 3D printing was only at its beginning. Let’s go back in 2009. The year Barack Obama officially became...

It’s often easier to learn with a video than with text. That’s why YouTube is a fantastic tool. To help you find out information about the tech industry without getting lost in the constant flow of images that is YouTube, we combined a top 18 of the ...

After releasing Rigid Polyurethane (RPU), the next CLIP material to go out of our Pilot Program is the expected Elastomeric Polyurethane CLIP Resin (EPU). After uploading your design on our website, you can now choose, directly from the list of mater...

Ever wanted to work in a company turned towards future and innovation? Sculpteo might just be the place for you, and we’re hiring in the US! We’re looking for passionate workers to participate in the 3D printing & digital manufacturing adventure, in ...

Nano-Racing is a startup launched in 2015, which makes mini 3D printed racing drones. It is on a quest to democratize immersion drone racing, a sport that has been gaining popularity since 2014. Their drones, small jewel of technology, are partly rea...

We launched our new online laser cutting service almost 2 months ago now, going from a 3D printing online factory to a broader digital manufacturing online factory. This is a first step towards becoming the factory of the future, gathering several di...

As your project is finally getting to the stage of materialization, your next priority is to go into the prototyping phase and to think about the manufacturing of your newborn idea. No matter if you choose 3D printing, laser cutting or other manufact...

Most of our customers at Sculpteo like things to be done fast. Thankfully our  online 3D printing service and laser cutting service are both intuitive and quick. As we like to say, it’s easy as 1, 2, 3: you upload it, we manufacture it, you receive i...